Hi everyone. I'm almost there. My one last problem with my installation (well, I'm actually not installing anymore) is, when I rebooted my machine up for the first time, the boot menu comes up and yet I am unable to do anything. I doubt my system is freezing up, so what else could I have done wrong?

Actually , no. However, I did decide to try to reinstall everything again, this time using the stage 3 tarball (instead of stage 1) and when I rebooted, everything worked fine. Unfortunately, I have no idea if this had anything to do with it. Thanks.